I don’t know I just a few excited when
people talk about problems I think
that’s think about if you can solve one
of them that’s the chance and today
nobody in live in this century has so
many opportunities and so many tools
they can use to change other people’s
life and I think in in the last century
which are called IT time this Center is
called a DT time data technology IT is
to empower yourself make yourself strong
DT is to empower the others when you
empower the others you empower your
future yourself so when I listen to talk
I agree and I think that’s why we were
born in this century that’s why we how
we can use the internet to help more
people I think today people worry a lot
about the world about the economy China
economy in the world and I’m a very
optimistic when people start to worry
that that is the opportunity is I worry
about the blood testing and she created
good things and I think great
innovations great companies always
happening in the tough times the lives
like the music you have a pivot down you
have allow other shot notes and I like
your American movie life life is like a
box of chocolate you never know what
you’re gonna get right so I’m pretty
optimistic the opportunity in the future
for equality is huge because in the in
in the last century the IT is for big
companies the globalization is for big
companies but now with the technology we
can serve those 80% of the companies
that never been served we can serve the
80% of the young people that never
served technology for Internet is so
cheap so easy to use one of the reasons
why we grow in China ecommerce so fast
much faster than the USA because our
infrastructure of Commerce in China was
too
bad why it is too bad something happened
ghost today we are working on the rural
areas of China I can never imagine that
China but 800 million people still live
in the rural areas of farmers and there
about close to 200 million people they
are income is less than one dollar per
day and before the internet it’s
impossible for these guys to reach the
PC because it’s so difficult even people
like me I don’t know how to use in PC
but now 80% of the farmers those will be
using mobile phones one of the mobile
phones the internet the data things
change it a lot so I’m excited about the
future people always worry that’s the
you know I love the young kids sitting
there and talking about the dream their
hopes because if they have the hope we
have the hope that’s what I believe
and let’s just take what you do and I
loved every description I’ve ever heard
about how you serve people and your
story about the bamboo farmers and your
wife and her friends it was fabulous but
where’s this going what are you gonna do
what are your plans to maximize the use
that people in remote rural areas of
China can make of their cell phones
besides ordering your project how are
you going to get it are you going to get
them in the banking system through cell
phones how well we we never know that we
can’t grow so fast in the past five
months we covered 4,500 villages and
these people not only they they using
very traditional way that take them like
two of we went to the rural area it took
them the farmers two hours to work to
the downtown in in the middle of the
town and buy things but today because
the mobile phone and we deliver we can
deliver things to their home to their
village within 72 hours I remember there
is a well last week I read a very
interesting this is chant amazing there
is a girl she told me a story
she said her grandfather 92 years old
birthday and for his life he always
wanted to try one western-style food but
he lived in the rural areas
there’s no such a restaurant food so she
said I tried on the internet book a
restaurant dinner for Western food
delivered to that village and they
finally immediately find that one
restaurant there are three guys they
took like a three days bus from the from
Shanghai to that village may the italic
spaghetti and be for them for this 92
years old bursting and whole village was
excited everybody says wow you can order
food rest no rest rest of style food so
buy almost everything and also we’re
helping there are a lot of farmers they
plunder love apples great apples but 90%
of the apples routed because there’s
nobody by Allah they normally buy by
track you know if you sell the the
apples they sell whole track and using a
traditional way they can they can sell
buy whole basket of the apples but now
because of the internet the sell by one
by one each Apple to sell $1 oh you know
190 or 200 for each so the farmers of
the using internet they can buy and sell
and use the mobile phone that change
their lives and I think it’s exciting
and people need examples when they see
well the other my neighbors make made a
money through online to sell in things
my neighbor made you know buy much
interesting things online people start
to learn and more people started by the
mobile phones we cannot have we cannot
make all the factory the mobile
factories to sell phones to them only
they know the mobile phone really works
helping change their lives they started
by the mobile phones just one more
question and then do you think this will
make
the current problems like the current
problem in China less likely that is if
we’ll have more market information in
the market will drive where the
investment goats instead of the
government trying to make judgments
about I better build another housing
development or office development here
they are yonder and you wind up with a
bubble well it comes from the bottom up
is it more likely that fewer bad things
will happen yeah they know I think the
last week I was in Seattle discussing
about the China economy I think the you
American people worry too much about the
China economy well you see every turn
when you start to worry about the China
China goes better every time you think
China is a problem you know we’re good
you know we’ll get better but when you
ever say job wherever you have a high
expectation show China China always a
problem like parents of the expectation
of the kids you know are the same but
there’s a big difference between
American consumption because people say
wow you know the economy is bad so China
consumption would be good low no totally
different you American love to spend
tomorrow’s money and the other people’s
money maybe oh maybe the Kudus money we
Chinese love to save money we are
probably the largest country under the
safe deposit in the whole world that
will be with us because we’ve been poor
for so many years when we meet money
we’re put in the banks because someday
we know that disaster is coming so we
can spend the money so when the
economy’s bad we still have the money to
spend you guys probably don’t you worry
and the second thing that the China
being it marketed China been focusing on
developing for the past two thirty years
China government so strong on investment
so strong on exporting but they are too
weak on the domestic consumption
domestic consumption is not driven by
governments driven by entrepreneurship
driven by the market not the government
so in the past two years past 20 years
government is so strong now they get a
week it’s our up
chanita it’s our show time to see the
market economy entrepreneurship how we
can develop the real consumption I think
what if the China developed the great
consumption we have a 300 million middle
class in next 15 to 20 years
we’re gonna have been a middle class we
need to import a lot so when we start to
import that’s a great it’s gonna I worry
a lot when we export you know when we
export we’ve got a terrible sky we have
a terrible water we have a terrible
environment when we start import we’ve
got to be better so that’s all the great
opportunity guys be happy about that I’m
serious we yourself the reason some of
us worry about China is we depend on you
to buy our debt however I tried to be
more Chinese when I was president I
saved a lot of money so but I just
wanted you to say that because I really
believe that I mean I think you’re
absolutely right that the trend toward
greater internal consumption is I think
will remain unbroken in spite of
whatever the difficulties are in the
next few months I think it’s important
not to over react you can’t break the
trend you’ve got to clean up the land
from chemical contaminants you’ve got to
clean up the air you’re going to do it
and a lot of Chinese will make a lot of
money out of that there’ll be a lot of
great new companies and there’ll be
opportunities to import from other
places yep
so can you discuss your theory of what
you’re doing and other things in terms
of whether it advances equal opportunity
and social solidarity tell them what you
think is going to happen and what other
kinds of when your opening remarks you
just said technology is going to be
active in this way in other areas of the
economy what do you think the next big
opportunities are
but first they tell them just in two
sentences what you’re doing cuz Jack and
I know and we haven’t been clear enough
explain it and explain how you think
that advances social solidarity and
equality of opportunity our work is in
the belief that access to health
information is a basic human right and
that lab information particularly
because lab data drives 70 percent of
clinical decisions i’m needs to be
accessible to people before they’re sick
so if you look at the word diagnosed in
the dictionary today it says to
determine the presence of disease from
symptoms which means by definition we’re
determining that people are sick once a
disease has already progressed and our
work is in being able to make lab
testing accessible to people in time for
therapy to be effected and to do that in
a way in which every person irrespective
of their insurance status irrespective
of where they live can afford the
ability to get a test done so that means
in our case we’ve invested the last 12
years in now developing hundreds of
tests many of which are less than ten
dollars so in two dollar tests in the
united states and i think one of the
amazing things about this country is
that we have such an incredible
ecosystem for fueling creativity and
that creativity can create new markets
so an answer to your question about the
market being able to conform itself to
social good i think the creativity that
goes into creating news new technologies
creates new markets in and of themselves
and and our basic belief that is that
those new markets come from empowering
individuals and in franchising
individuals and trusting that
individuals have the capability to
engage with information
and in accessing that information
beginning to take control of their own
outcomes and their own health outcomes
and in doing so changing the way our
healthcare system works think what this
could mean for rural China you know for
rural India for Native American
reservations in America for the
Mississippi Delta for the remote areas
of where all the jobs were lost from
cold you’re all of a sudden giving
people information and one of the most
important things I think we did in my
second term as president and the health
care front was developed as diabetes
self-care program and all of a sudden
you could be Jack’s company could be
delivering the means to self care based
on your test I mean I think that this is
really this is a very big deal we all
want to live as long and as well as we
can and Gregg Benner was here we were
joking about whether we’d make it to a
hundred but in the meanwhile you want to
keep people healthy and if they’re sick
you want to intervene early not late
yeah well and if you look at I mean the
ability to engage with this information
we have a four trillion dollar health
care problem in this country 20% of it
is type 2 diabetes which is reversible
and we have 90 million Americans who do
not know they are pre-diabetic but
access to information and the ability to
engage with that information is the
foundation for being able to change
those outcomes and and cost right one
more factor than I want to call it Jack
you founded this company twelve years
ago right tell them how old we were I
was 19 so
[Applause]
don’t worry about the future we’re in
good hands okay I always think about
noble 19:1 at where I am 19 I’m not the
past examination for university yet I
filled a three times but I think it
worked out I’m not a good as schooling
well yeah that’s why I give confidence
to a lot of young people in China if
jack mccann success can be successful
80% of the people can be successful
people like her jealous
well equality I I would like to make a
little bit cut technology helping
because yesterday I was joining the
United UN Women conference about gender
equality and I think the first a
technology revolution happened 200 years
ago in the UK released the human body
they’re armed stronger the second
technology revolution in the USA for
energy you can last long but this
technology of revolution relief release
the brain so this century is not a
competition who is strong whose muscles
are stronger this who is a smarter who
is soft who can listen you it’s the
challenge of a wisdom so men women equal
on the internet you can never see he’s a
woman a man and on the Internet women
can surf much better than men on the
Internet
and a man talking about a business
talking about you know numbers
competition to make business very cold
women they make business very cozy
lifestyle and interesting 50% more than
50% of our shop owners gonna have five
million shop owners are women and people
looked at me this is this is a great
thing I see that this century we see
more and more women leaders on the state
leaders and the presidents and in the
future we’re gonna general scepter of
your nation shall be a woman leader and
this is the greatest century for
equality and I feel excited about that
when they ask you we were almost out of
time but I one of the things that we
haven’t talked enough about here and
I’ll just here but generally it’s
whether the leapfrogging we saw with
cell phones which was instrumental in
your phenomenal business success and
which will make it possible for you at
the appropriate time to do what you’ve
done on a global scale in the to
unimaginable and all of human history
for anybody to have any of their own
health data we haven’t we’ve seen
examples but not the kind of dramatic
penetration we need with energy and
clean energy and enough and in short
enough time to avoid the worst
consequences of climate change so do you
believe that I mean your country has
done more than anybody else to try to
put up solar panels and some of your
companies went broke because you overdid
it right beforehand and you got to work
out the phase-out of the coal the
phasing of the Sun and all that
meanwhile Africa which is growing like
crazy because of the cellphone in no
small measure and as six of the fastest
growing countries in the world still has
vast swathes of its land totally dark at
night do you believe that it’s possible
for us to scale up with distributed
solar power is rather than centralized
as quick as we did with a cell phone and
if so and if that were your business if
you had to quit what you’re doing today
and start there how would you do it and
how would you do it
they first I know that you know I’m such
a huge believer in technology and I
think especially right now we’re at an
incredible time in terms of new
technology and the ability to apply
technology in a scalable way toward
solving some of these problems so I
would look at it in the context of some
of the renewable solutions that we
already have and in the context of
empowering connecting individuals with
access to those solutions and in the
context of creating markets around them
I think that there’s real opportunity to
actually create an ecosystem in which
people can financially benefit from
these solutions and I think that’s gonna
drive an adoption I think in developing
economies there’s a revenue stream
associated with that and the more we can
turn even already some of the
technologies that we have into markets
the more that we can fuel I believe
local growth and individual engagement
in in beginning to adopt some of these
solutions just related and it would be
Jack you answer it and then I’ll ask you
one final question yeah I I’m a strong
believer that technology can make war
much better because people say China
economy is getting slower I’m happy
about a 7% even 5% even 5% of the GDP of
the number of China of the second large
economy is big enough but you don’t
expect China keep on growing 11% because
like one body one human body when you
have 1.8 meters tall you cannot keep on
like a 10% growth every year you have to
grow the quality your mind the wisdom so
I think China needs new technology to
solve these problems and which today the
data the the clean technology all these
things that China is supposed to do if
we keep on the tradition that the other
ways will go nowhere but this is why
I’ve you excited because people asking
what is your dream now because I never
thought I would be today I can sit here
talking to president I’m like a guy you
know on the street and like fill the
three times for university five times
for high key schools I applied for 10
times in Harvard School or rejected
I never thought because of the
technology because the Internet give me
this opportunity so I think when I
retire I don’t want the Chinese people
have a terrible water to drink and it’s
safe for food as people the money we
make or spend in the hospital
that’s disaster so how we can using the
technology to enable young people the
greater chance of this road don’t worry
about
we got 1.4 billion people who were born
in 1980s they are the people of the
internet times they are going to have
new ways to solve the world problems the
things you are worried about today they
can solve it and a human being have
these kind of worries for centuries and
young people can always solve it and
today we have a right direction clean
energy you know the climate change all
these issues they will be solved and
these are the great opportunities ahead
of us anything else
I agree with that I think the more the
more we can the more we can enfranchise
people the more we can create ecosystems
in which individuals are empowered the
more we give rights to individuals to be
able to build businesses to be able to
to pursue the economic benefit of
technologies the more you see these
markets change before they leave the
stage I want you to look at them and I
want you to think about the time we have
had to spend here dealing with the
refugee problems in Syria and Lebanon
stand up Elias this is my friend Elias
Musab he’s the education minister in
Lebanon he’s got to educate all these
kids
and so he left a miracle that very much
reflects the lives that Elizabeth and
Jack have lived he was in a very
responsible position at the American
University of Dubai they started
bringing American scholars over there to
live in an Arabic culture he did all
these wonderful things
Lebanon got in trouble he went home to
save his country what is the difference
how much more could he and every smart
Lebanese person do if they could focus
on these things and why can he not
because the place is dominated by people
who think their differences are more
important than their common humanity and
their common challenges you cannot
imagine Jack miles proud of being
Chinese I like that he’d never hit it
easy so happy about it I’m a product to
be a global citizen yeah yeah and I
imagine Elizabeth proud to be a blonde
haired blue-eyed American techno Western
Northern California yes but they don’t
not a word either one of them is said
has defined the meaning of their lives
or the direction of their work with
negative reference to someone else
my friend Dikembe Mutombo stand up no
you don’t stand up it’ll hurts too much
you’re an old man my seven foot tour
it’s fall friend was just inducted into
the National Basketball Association Hall
of Fame and
he my family my whole family loves him
and I have seen how much he has given
back to his native country Congo which
has been so troubled I’ve known him a
long time we both went to Georgetown
University I did before he was born I
think I’ve never heard him say a
resentful thing about anybody I have
seen him give and give and give and try
to give the people in his native land
opportunities why am I telling you this
he’s had a good life because he never
defined his life with negative reference
to anybody else
he never begrudge anybody else’s success
and he thought he had an obligation to
help other people I’m telling you this
is the we are back in a time of
collective global insecurity where the
main struggle is the oldest one in human
history just in modern techno realities
I mean if you were trying to build the
Middle East you would think about our
permanent sponsor here the Ambassador
from Oman who tried to her government
tried to help head off a calamitous war
in the Middle East over the nuclear
issue in Iran we all pray to God that
it’ll work out our life and the least
you make you look around all these
places wherever people are putting aside
their differences and working together
good things are happening we cannot
achieve economic or social equality
without living in the factional
realities of the world we face looking
at the obstacles looking at the
opportunities making the best decisions
and those of us who even feel good about
ourselves because we think we spent a
lot of time giving
our whole goal should be to work
ourselves out of a job one of the things
that the bill and tani Austin it we’re
sitting there with Starkey they started
giving away hearing aids and then they
decided what we better teach these young
people how to speak if I get the gift of
hearing they’ll have to learn that so
they got into the education business
sunny Varkey got into the education
business decided somebody ought to do
something really dramatic to remind
people that the only people that really
matter the teachers so he gave the first
global Teacher of the Year award last
year and an international panel gave the
prize to a teacher from Maine who
promptly gave the entire million dollars
to her school woman never made any money
in their life she gave all the money
away immediately the future is going to
be forged by people who think of how to
use the modern tools that we are given
as Elizabeth and Jack have to create
opportunity through empowerment and it
will not be a straight line it’s too too
many moving parts and but I just want
you to think about that the reason you
feel good looking at them and that you
identify with them even though they’re
different from you and that’s basically
where we are all over again and we can’t
slip back we can’t give up that’s why we
had the Prime Minister of Italy and
George Soros talking about the future of
Europe and George said it was coming
apart and the Prime Minister said no it
doesn’t have become a part if it’s about
something more than economics I thought
it doesn’t have to come apart if you
will it not – and you put yourself on
the line for it there are no guaranteed
outcomes today but you can guarantee
that the trend is right so go ahead and
eat we’re gonna say something orange
yeah I just wanted to add I mean if
we’re talking about the future and and
from my own experience and looking at
all the faces here I think a huge part
of the answer to your question is also
to raise our little girls
with the stereotype that they can be the
best in engineering and science and math
because when they do in all of these
industries it changes everything and we
need to do that in this country and we
need to do that as parents in other
countries yeah I was thinking about if
what you say I think about when you want
when you talk about problems anomalies
like a politician we can talk about
opportunity opportunities that the
businesspeople I was thinking about how
we can using you know this all the
problems that change the problem becomes
the opportunity and I don’t know I just
a feel excited when people talk about
problems
I think that’s think about if you can
solve one of them that’s the chance and
today nobody in live in this century has
so many opportunities and so many tools
they can use to change other people’s
life and I think in in the last century
which are called IT time this century is
called a DT time data technology IT is
to empower yourself make yourself strong
DT is to empower the others when you
empower the others you empower your
future yourself so when I listen to you
talk I agree and I think that’s why we
were born in this century that’s why we
how we can use the internet to help more
people it’s given my hand thank you
you
people talk about problems I think
that’s think about if you can solve one
of them that’s the chance and today
nobody in live in this century has so
many opportunities and so many tools
they can use to change other people’s
life and I think in in the last century
which are called IT time this Center is
called a DT time data technology IT is
to empower yourself make yourself strong
DT is to empower the others when you
empower the others you empower your
future yourself so when I listen to talk
I agree and I think that’s why we were
born in this century that’s why we how
we can use the internet to help more
people I think today people worry a lot
about the world about the economy China
economy in the world and I’m a very
optimistic when people start to worry
that that is the opportunity is I worry
about the blood testing and she created
good things and I think great
innovations great companies always
happening in the tough times the lives
like the music you have a pivot down you
have allow other shot notes and I like
your American movie life life is like a
box of chocolate you never know what
you’re gonna get right so I’m pretty
optimistic the opportunity in the future
for equality is huge because in the in
in the last century the IT is for big
companies the globalization is for big
companies but now with the technology we
can serve those 80% of the companies
that never been served we can serve the
80% of the young people that never
served technology for Internet is so
cheap so easy to use one of the reasons
why we grow in China ecommerce so fast
much faster than the USA because our
infrastructure of Commerce in China was
too
bad why it is too bad something happened
ghost today we are working on the rural
areas of China I can never imagine that
China but 800 million people still live
in the rural areas of farmers and there
about close to 200 million people they
are income is less than one dollar per
day and before the internet it’s
impossible for these guys to reach the
PC because it’s so difficult even people
like me I don’t know how to use in PC
but now 80% of the farmers those will be
using mobile phones one of the mobile
phones the internet the data things
change it a lot so I’m excited about the
future people always worry that’s the
you know I love the young kids sitting
there and talking about the dream their
hopes because if they have the hope we
have the hope that’s what I believe
and let’s just take what you do and I
loved every description I’ve ever heard
about how you serve people and your
story about the bamboo farmers and your
wife and her friends it was fabulous but
where’s this going what are you gonna do
what are your plans to maximize the use
that people in remote rural areas of
China can make of their cell phones
besides ordering your project how are
you going to get it are you going to get
them in the banking system through cell
phones how well we we never know that we
can’t grow so fast in the past five
months we covered 4,500 villages and
these people not only they they using
very traditional way that take them like
two of we went to the rural area it took
them the farmers two hours to work to
the downtown in in the middle of the
town and buy things but today because
the mobile phone and we deliver we can
deliver things to their home to their
village within 72 hours I remember there
is a well last week I read a very
interesting this is chant amazing there
is a girl she told me a story
she said her grandfather 92 years old
birthday and for his life he always
wanted to try one western-style food but
he lived in the rural areas
there’s no such a restaurant food so she
said I tried on the internet book a
restaurant dinner for Western food
delivered to that village and they
finally immediately find that one
restaurant there are three guys they
took like a three days bus from the from
Shanghai to that village may the italic
spaghetti and be for them for this 92
years old bursting and whole village was
excited everybody says wow you can order
food rest no rest rest of style food so
buy almost everything and also we’re
helping there are a lot of farmers they
plunder love apples great apples but 90%
of the apples routed because there’s
nobody by Allah they normally buy by
track you know if you sell the the
apples they sell whole track and using a
traditional way they can they can sell
buy whole basket of the apples but now
because of the internet the sell by one
by one each Apple to sell $1 oh you know
190 or 200 for each so the farmers of
the using internet they can buy and sell
and use the mobile phone that change
their lives and I think it’s exciting
and people need examples when they see
well the other my neighbors make made a
money through online to sell in things
my neighbor made you know buy much
interesting things online people start
to learn and more people started by the
mobile phones we cannot have we cannot
make all the factory the mobile
factories to sell phones to them only
they know the mobile phone really works
helping change their lives they started
by the mobile phones just one more
question and then do you think this will
make
the current problems like the current
problem in China less likely that is if
we’ll have more market information in
the market will drive where the
investment goats instead of the
government trying to make judgments
about I better build another housing
development or office development here
they are yonder and you wind up with a
bubble well it comes from the bottom up
is it more likely that fewer bad things
will happen yeah they know I think the
last week I was in Seattle discussing
about the China economy I think the you
American people worry too much about the
China economy well you see every turn
when you start to worry about the China
China goes better every time you think
China is a problem you know we’re good
you know we’ll get better but when you
ever say job wherever you have a high
expectation show China China always a
problem like parents of the expectation
of the kids you know are the same but
there’s a big difference between
American consumption because people say
wow you know the economy is bad so China
consumption would be good low no totally
different you American love to spend
tomorrow’s money and the other people’s
money maybe oh maybe the Kudus money we
Chinese love to save money we are
probably the largest country under the
safe deposit in the whole world that
will be with us because we’ve been poor
for so many years when we meet money
we’re put in the banks because someday
we know that disaster is coming so we
can spend the money so when the
economy’s bad we still have the money to
spend you guys probably don’t you worry
and the second thing that the China
being it marketed China been focusing on
developing for the past two thirty years
China government so strong on investment
so strong on exporting but they are too
weak on the domestic consumption
domestic consumption is not driven by
governments driven by entrepreneurship
driven by the market not the government
so in the past two years past 20 years
government is so strong now they get a
week it’s our up
chanita it’s our show time to see the
market economy entrepreneurship how we
can develop the real consumption I think
what if the China developed the great
consumption we have a 300 million middle
class in next 15 to 20 years
we’re gonna have been a middle class we
need to import a lot so when we start to
import that’s a great it’s gonna I worry
a lot when we export you know when we
export we’ve got a terrible sky we have
a terrible water we have a terrible
environment when we start import we’ve
got to be better so that’s all the great
opportunity guys be happy about that I’m
serious we yourself the reason some of
us worry about China is we depend on you
to buy our debt however I tried to be
more Chinese when I was president I
saved a lot of money so but I just
wanted you to say that because I really
believe that I mean I think you’re
absolutely right that the trend toward
greater internal consumption is I think
will remain unbroken in spite of
whatever the difficulties are in the
next few months I think it’s important
not to over react you can’t break the
trend you’ve got to clean up the land
from chemical contaminants you’ve got to
clean up the air you’re going to do it
and a lot of Chinese will make a lot of
money out of that there’ll be a lot of
great new companies and there’ll be
opportunities to import from other
places yep
so can you discuss your theory of what
you’re doing and other things in terms
of whether it advances equal opportunity
and social solidarity tell them what you
think is going to happen and what other
kinds of when your opening remarks you
just said technology is going to be
active in this way in other areas of the
economy what do you think the next big
opportunities are
but first they tell them just in two
sentences what you’re doing cuz Jack and
I know and we haven’t been clear enough
explain it and explain how you think
that advances social solidarity and
equality of opportunity our work is in
the belief that access to health
information is a basic human right and
that lab information particularly
because lab data drives 70 percent of
clinical decisions i’m needs to be
accessible to people before they’re sick
so if you look at the word diagnosed in
the dictionary today it says to
determine the presence of disease from
symptoms which means by definition we’re
determining that people are sick once a
disease has already progressed and our
work is in being able to make lab
testing accessible to people in time for
therapy to be effected and to do that in
a way in which every person irrespective
of their insurance status irrespective
of where they live can afford the
ability to get a test done so that means
in our case we’ve invested the last 12
years in now developing hundreds of
tests many of which are less than ten
dollars so in two dollar tests in the
united states and i think one of the
amazing things about this country is
that we have such an incredible
ecosystem for fueling creativity and
that creativity can create new markets
so an answer to your question about the
market being able to conform itself to
social good i think the creativity that
goes into creating news new technologies
creates new markets in and of themselves
and and our basic belief that is that
those new markets come from empowering
individuals and in franchising
individuals and trusting that
individuals have the capability to
engage with information
and in accessing that information
beginning to take control of their own
outcomes and their own health outcomes
and in doing so changing the way our
healthcare system works think what this
could mean for rural China you know for
rural India for Native American
reservations in America for the
Mississippi Delta for the remote areas
of where all the jobs were lost from
cold you’re all of a sudden giving
people information and one of the most
important things I think we did in my
second term as president and the health
care front was developed as diabetes
self-care program and all of a sudden
you could be Jack’s company could be
delivering the means to self care based
on your test I mean I think that this is
really this is a very big deal we all
want to live as long and as well as we
can and Gregg Benner was here we were
joking about whether we’d make it to a
hundred but in the meanwhile you want to
keep people healthy and if they’re sick
you want to intervene early not late
yeah well and if you look at I mean the
ability to engage with this information
we have a four trillion dollar health
care problem in this country 20% of it
is type 2 diabetes which is reversible
and we have 90 million Americans who do
not know they are pre-diabetic but
access to information and the ability to
engage with that information is the
foundation for being able to change
those outcomes and and cost right one
more factor than I want to call it Jack
you founded this company twelve years
ago right tell them how old we were I
was 19 so
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don’t worry about the future we’re in
good hands okay I always think about
noble 19:1 at where I am 19 I’m not the
past examination for university yet I
filled a three times but I think it
worked out I’m not a good as schooling
well yeah that’s why I give confidence
to a lot of young people in China if
jack mccann success can be successful
80% of the people can be successful
people like her jealous
well equality I I would like to make a
little bit cut technology helping
because yesterday I was joining the
United UN Women conference about gender
equality and I think the first a
technology revolution happened 200 years
ago in the UK released the human body
they’re armed stronger the second
technology revolution in the USA for
energy you can last long but this
technology of revolution relief release
the brain so this century is not a
competition who is strong whose muscles
are stronger this who is a smarter who
is soft who can listen you it’s the
challenge of a wisdom so men women equal
on the internet you can never see he’s a
woman a man and on the Internet women
can surf much better than men on the
Internet
and a man talking about a business
talking about you know numbers
competition to make business very cold
women they make business very cozy
lifestyle and interesting 50% more than
50% of our shop owners gonna have five
million shop owners are women and people
looked at me this is this is a great
thing I see that this century we see
more and more women leaders on the state
leaders and the presidents and in the
future we’re gonna general scepter of
your nation shall be a woman leader and
this is the greatest century for
equality and I feel excited about that
when they ask you we were almost out of
time but I one of the things that we
haven’t talked enough about here and
I’ll just here but generally it’s
whether the leapfrogging we saw with
cell phones which was instrumental in
your phenomenal business success and
which will make it possible for you at
the appropriate time to do what you’ve
done on a global scale in the to
unimaginable and all of human history
for anybody to have any of their own
health data we haven’t we’ve seen
examples but not the kind of dramatic
penetration we need with energy and
clean energy and enough and in short
enough time to avoid the worst
consequences of climate change so do you
believe that I mean your country has
done more than anybody else to try to
put up solar panels and some of your
companies went broke because you overdid
it right beforehand and you got to work
out the phase-out of the coal the
phasing of the Sun and all that
meanwhile Africa which is growing like
crazy because of the cellphone in no
small measure and as six of the fastest
growing countries in the world still has
vast swathes of its land totally dark at
night do you believe that it’s possible
for us to scale up with distributed
solar power is rather than centralized
as quick as we did with a cell phone and
if so and if that were your business if
you had to quit what you’re doing today
and start there how would you do it and
how would you do it
they first I know that you know I’m such
a huge believer in technology and I
think especially right now we’re at an
incredible time in terms of new
technology and the ability to apply
technology in a scalable way toward
solving some of these problems so I
would look at it in the context of some
of the renewable solutions that we
already have and in the context of
empowering connecting individuals with
access to those solutions and in the
context of creating markets around them
I think that there’s real opportunity to
actually create an ecosystem in which
people can financially benefit from
these solutions and I think that’s gonna
drive an adoption I think in developing
economies there’s a revenue stream
associated with that and the more we can
turn even already some of the
technologies that we have into markets
the more that we can fuel I believe
local growth and individual engagement
in in beginning to adopt some of these
solutions just related and it would be
Jack you answer it and then I’ll ask you
one final question yeah I I’m a strong
believer that technology can make war
much better because people say China
economy is getting slower I’m happy
about a 7% even 5% even 5% of the GDP of
the number of China of the second large
economy is big enough but you don’t
expect China keep on growing 11% because
like one body one human body when you
have 1.8 meters tall you cannot keep on
like a 10% growth every year you have to
grow the quality your mind the wisdom so
I think China needs new technology to
solve these problems and which today the
data the the clean technology all these
things that China is supposed to do if
we keep on the tradition that the other
ways will go nowhere but this is why
I’ve you excited because people asking
what is your dream now because I never
thought I would be today I can sit here
talking to president I’m like a guy you
know on the street and like fill the
three times for university five times
for high key schools I applied for 10
times in Harvard School or rejected
I never thought because of the
technology because the Internet give me
this opportunity so I think when I
retire I don’t want the Chinese people
have a terrible water to drink and it’s
safe for food as people the money we
make or spend in the hospital
that’s disaster so how we can using the
technology to enable young people the
greater chance of this road don’t worry
about
we got 1.4 billion people who were born
in 1980s they are the people of the
internet times they are going to have
new ways to solve the world problems the
things you are worried about today they
can solve it and a human being have
these kind of worries for centuries and
young people can always solve it and
today we have a right direction clean
energy you know the climate change all
these issues they will be solved and
these are the great opportunities ahead
of us anything else
I agree with that I think the more the
more we can the more we can enfranchise
people the more we can create ecosystems
in which individuals are empowered the
more we give rights to individuals to be
able to build businesses to be able to
to pursue the economic benefit of
technologies the more you see these
markets change before they leave the
stage I want you to look at them and I
want you to think about the time we have
had to spend here dealing with the
refugee problems in Syria and Lebanon
stand up Elias this is my friend Elias
Musab he’s the education minister in
Lebanon he’s got to educate all these
kids
and so he left a miracle that very much
reflects the lives that Elizabeth and
Jack have lived he was in a very
responsible position at the American
University of Dubai they started
bringing American scholars over there to
live in an Arabic culture he did all
these wonderful things
Lebanon got in trouble he went home to
save his country what is the difference
how much more could he and every smart
Lebanese person do if they could focus
on these things and why can he not
because the place is dominated by people
who think their differences are more
important than their common humanity and
their common challenges you cannot
imagine Jack miles proud of being
Chinese I like that he’d never hit it
easy so happy about it I’m a product to
be a global citizen yeah yeah and I
imagine Elizabeth proud to be a blonde
haired blue-eyed American techno Western
Northern California yes but they don’t
not a word either one of them is said
has defined the meaning of their lives
or the direction of their work with
negative reference to someone else
my friend Dikembe Mutombo stand up no
you don’t stand up it’ll hurts too much
you’re an old man my seven foot tour
it’s fall friend was just inducted into
the National Basketball Association Hall
of Fame and
he my family my whole family loves him
and I have seen how much he has given
back to his native country Congo which
has been so troubled I’ve known him a
long time we both went to Georgetown
University I did before he was born I
think I’ve never heard him say a
resentful thing about anybody I have
seen him give and give and give and try
to give the people in his native land
opportunities why am I telling you this
he’s had a good life because he never
defined his life with negative reference
to anybody else
he never begrudge anybody else’s success
and he thought he had an obligation to
help other people I’m telling you this
is the we are back in a time of
collective global insecurity where the
main struggle is the oldest one in human
history just in modern techno realities
I mean if you were trying to build the
Middle East you would think about our
permanent sponsor here the Ambassador
from Oman who tried to her government
tried to help head off a calamitous war
in the Middle East over the nuclear
issue in Iran we all pray to God that
it’ll work out our life and the least
you make you look around all these
places wherever people are putting aside
their differences and working together
good things are happening we cannot
achieve economic or social equality
without living in the factional
realities of the world we face looking
at the obstacles looking at the
opportunities making the best decisions
and those of us who even feel good about
ourselves because we think we spent a
lot of time giving
our whole goal should be to work
ourselves out of a job one of the things
that the bill and tani Austin it we’re
sitting there with Starkey they started
giving away hearing aids and then they
decided what we better teach these young
people how to speak if I get the gift of
hearing they’ll have to learn that so
they got into the education business
sunny Varkey got into the education
business decided somebody ought to do
something really dramatic to remind
people that the only people that really
matter the teachers so he gave the first
global Teacher of the Year award last
year and an international panel gave the
prize to a teacher from Maine who
promptly gave the entire million dollars
to her school woman never made any money
in their life she gave all the money
away immediately the future is going to
be forged by people who think of how to
use the modern tools that we are given
as Elizabeth and Jack have to create
opportunity through empowerment and it
will not be a straight line it’s too too
many moving parts and but I just want
you to think about that the reason you
feel good looking at them and that you
identify with them even though they’re
different from you and that’s basically
where we are all over again and we can’t
slip back we can’t give up that’s why we
had the Prime Minister of Italy and
George Soros talking about the future of
Europe and George said it was coming
apart and the Prime Minister said no it
doesn’t have become a part if it’s about
something more than economics I thought
it doesn’t have to come apart if you
will it not – and you put yourself on
the line for it there are no guaranteed
outcomes today but you can guarantee
that the trend is right so go ahead and
eat we’re gonna say something orange
yeah I just wanted to add I mean if
we’re talking about the future and and
from my own experience and looking at
all the faces here I think a huge part
of the answer to your question is also
to raise our little girls
with the stereotype that they can be the
best in engineering and science and math
because when they do in all of these
industries it changes everything and we
need to do that in this country and we
need to do that as parents in other
countries yeah I was thinking about if
what you say I think about when you want
when you talk about problems anomalies
like a politician we can talk about
opportunity opportunities that the
businesspeople I was thinking about how
we can using you know this all the
problems that change the problem becomes
the opportunity and I don’t know I just
a feel excited when people talk about
problems
I think that’s think about if you can
solve one of them that’s the chance and
today nobody in live in this century has
so many opportunities and so many tools
they can use to change other people’s
life and I think in in the last century
which are called IT time this century is
called a DT time data technology IT is
to empower yourself make yourself strong
DT is to empower the others when you
empower the others you empower your
future yourself so when I listen to you
talk I agree and I think that’s why we
were born in this century that’s why we
how we can use the internet to help more
people it’s given my hand thank you
you
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